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There is also the the home of J. Rosamond Johnson, who scored the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for his brother James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics. Another stop ...
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The audience rose and joined the OSU African American Voices Gospel Choir to sing a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black national anthem. Unlike a typical Ohio State ...
VUL Athletic Jr. Chaplain Kahlial Smith led students and attendees in singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn written by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900. King, a Virginia native ...
Interviewer Karen Celestan hit several of the many stellar accomplishments in Ledisi’s career, including her recent showstopping performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl in New ...
“She’s the one who sent you all those wonderful poems,” Gwendolyn’s mother told James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” afterward dubbed the ...
Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—the song we now know as the Black National Anthem. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, 500 Black schoolchildren in Florida first sang ...
Even the counterpoint lines—they give a celestial character and melodic lift to every one of his ... he doesn’t sing it, he performs it like a matinee idol. It’s a masterful song, one of many in Cohen ...